Tippe Tops and Rattlebacks - QI: Series K Episode 16 Preview

Tippe Tops and Rattlebacks - QI: Series K Episode 16 Preview - BBC Two

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Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home More about this programme: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03q9pgf Stephen demonstrates a spinning top that turns upside down called a tippe top and a spinning strip of plastic called a rattleback that always goes back to spinning in one direction.
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@stitcha123 5 жыл бұрын

1:37 What an incredible call back to 1:16. I don't know why I find that impressive and polite of Fry.

@multifacetedabnormal4951 4 жыл бұрын

The top flips like that because it’s rotating on three axis instead of just one or two. The shape allows it to access and rotate along a third intermediate axis thus turning over on its end. If the shape didn’t change and both sides were the same, it would eventually flip back and continue in this way until momentum is exhausted.

@Ethan-Entah Жыл бұрын

Same as how a ping pong paddle will always land on the other side when you flip it

@abundantabsurdity7085 Жыл бұрын

@@Ethan-Entah actually yeah. Kind of. Basically. The paddle has access to 1.5 (not really but numbers like these are easier to think about over dimensional planes and vectors) axis of rotation because of how it's constructed. So. It flips. It actually kind of slips from one axis of rotation down to an intermediate one which causes the flip. In space, it would just keep on flipping until it was acted upon by another outward force.

@hugorune766 Жыл бұрын

Simple explanation... the rotation of the planet Earth

@auturgicflosculator2183 6 ай бұрын

About the most fun I had in school was machining tops in metal shop...was kind of obsessed, and ended up using around 5 meters of aluminum round stock. The teacher finally banned me from making any more.

@cjknotty 10 жыл бұрын

I used to have a top like that!

@ThomasLanphier 10 жыл бұрын

I would definitely watch this show! Darn it, I live in the United States.

@jungla3 10 жыл бұрын

I live in Sweden, but strangely enough still have BBC entertainment(but none of the other BBC channels) It really is a great show ^^ Perhaps you could watch it online somewhere?

@ThomasLanphier 10 жыл бұрын

Only if the BBC deigns to release it that way.

@jungla3 10 жыл бұрын

Thomas Lanphier There are certain shows you can watch on the BBC website, but I'm not sure if you can watch them while being in the US :/

@ThomasLanphier 10 жыл бұрын

Very true.

@QuasiEli 10 жыл бұрын

I've seen several different channels on here that post most of the episodes. Just type in QI, and search whatever series (season) you want to watch :)

@miramuska 10 жыл бұрын

Belloooo

@kenhood7726 4 жыл бұрын

I’m just curious if you spun a rattle back in the Southern Hemisphere would it react in the opposite direction?!.🤷🏻‍♂️

@amoral_minority 3 жыл бұрын

@hugorune766 Жыл бұрын

I suspect it would...

@hugorune766 Жыл бұрын

@@amoral_minority have you tried it?

@MichaelSHartman 5 жыл бұрын

WHY?! 😲

@zylifv 7 жыл бұрын

wish they would shut up whilst being shown a video and a demonstration

@Supertasticisaword 7 жыл бұрын

zylifv does anyone on QI ever do that?

@hecticscone 5 жыл бұрын

i was more annoyed that stephen was interrupting them

@Sofia-nc1tu 3 жыл бұрын

I see it like this I feel like * I beg to differ.

@markdstump 10 жыл бұрын

The Earth's magnetic field has reversed, and can be expected to reverse again in time: the woman alluding to this sounds confused about what she'd heard/read.

@moremerry57 5 жыл бұрын

Mark Stump, to you, maybe. She was making a joke. Guests do that on this program.

@sibby84 10 жыл бұрын

Great to see a show with all 3 guests being female

@donkyleone 7 жыл бұрын

Siobhan Smith ... but it was excruciatingly boring...

@theolav12 7 жыл бұрын

Siobhan Smith and none of them were funny and they ruined the experiment by speaking and interrupting

@Supertasticisaword 7 жыл бұрын

Siobhan Smith I agree! Should be more of it :)

@silentterrorhawk 6 жыл бұрын

Would be nice if they weren't so rude and interrupt every time Stephen is trying to show them something

@huia7286 6 жыл бұрын

Sandy was good the other two weren't that funny, anyway why does it matter if there's more girls or boys?

@gaia7240 Жыл бұрын

I swear the comment section lower the IQ of the program

@OdditiesandRarities 7 жыл бұрын

Notice that's there aren't as many laughs as usual in this clip. Then notice that there are mainly women in this episode. Women always seem to be a bit more serious than men, even if they are comedians.

@moremerry57 5 жыл бұрын

George Danbar, do you count all the laughs in all the clips on all the seasons? Granted, there were fewer references to forbidden body parts, creating a void for those who feel saying “peepee” is great humor.

@animatechap5176 3 жыл бұрын

@@moremerry57 you what? You think all male comedians only talk about their knobs?

@rodrigezgozalo4780 10 жыл бұрын

This show uses "moronspouted subjective giggle banter" to draw the t.v zombie into a false sense of knowledge wellbeing by fusing cheap stand up garbageisms with toyfactual textbook graphititis and thus creating "beebification of the feeburbs"and gratifiying the pro licence lobbits.Regards,Proffessor Rob Telfish...Media studies Wakefield college of Origami Leeds.

@BelizeMarionette 10 жыл бұрын

How small do we all look from your high horse/pedestal you're on Rod ?

@joanneentwistle9057 10 жыл бұрын

Is the air thin up there on your pedestal...I'm sure it's lonely.

@Twyzan 7 жыл бұрын

Come on, this is obviously a joke

@PintOfJinnes 6 жыл бұрын

What?

@Spearced 6 жыл бұрын

"Wakefield College of Origami Leeds" xD Either his knowledge of punctuation is as flawed as his reason (assuming it's not a troll/joke in the first place), or there's a fantastically specific college he teaches at.... I imagine Wakefield citizens have better things to do than study how to build origami models of Leeds, no?

@OdditiesandRarities 7 жыл бұрын